Agenda item up to two minutes and be in a quiet location and speak clearly and slowly and mute computers or radio. Item 1, call to order roll call. Director tsen. Here. Director dunlop . Perhaps you have unmute. Sounds like hes having an issue with his tablet. If hes in the meeting he can see it. Go to the upper left hand corner of the screen theres a circle with an i that says event information and at the bottom theres an attendee i. D. If you dial in and enter that attendee i. D. When prompted you should be able to access the meeting by audio and hopefully it will merge with your panelist i. D. As well. Can staff people perhaps phone him or text him. If he cannot join by video can he join by phone . Yes, theres instructions i just gave where he can use audio to dial into the meeting as a panelist but in order to do that he has to be in the meeting to access the unique attendee i. D. Otherwise hell call in but hell end up as an attendee and appear as a callin user like the public. Tho
A lot to get to and discuss, everybody. Right now, though, a quick check on the markets because theyre higher across the board. The bottom right of the screen and come off the highs, the dow above 27,000 for the First Time Since june 10th on an intraday basis. S p 500 less than 5 from its alltime highs up nearly 50 from the march lows. 28 members of that index hitting a new 52week or alltime high and a cramer favorite stock, mccormick. The nasdaq is negative again there is a lot to discuss. Joe, we are off the highs. You can address that but also this the vaccines plural getting all the attention as they should. It only concerns, you know, all of humanity. But did Goldman Sachs numbers have anything to do with the earlier market strength . I think most of the early gains that we witnessed this morning you can credit to the vaccine optimism i do think, brian, that the Strong Performance from financials in the last couple of days, whether it be jpmorgan or a Goldman Sachs this morning, t
Protests in minneapolis riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets of thousands of people as multiple fires broke out across the city and shops were looted 46 year old floyd was filmed gasping for breath during his arrest well an officer kneeled on his leg for several minutes he died in hospital shortly after the officer and 3 others have been fired but many have called for criminal charges and i got here some words to me are you going to address the ballots the violence on the dress is our man could hold a man down. Then come. Back. On. The drive and started on the 1st car were mismanage was joke for his life. So we must act in a way to just. Good thread. Weve got as good. As what is right. The u. K. U. S. Australia and canada have condemned the china for imposing new security laws d on hong kong saying it threatens the territories fritos Chinas Parliament has given the go ahead for the legislation despite protests and International Warnings the wide ranging laws which beijing says
Gates chinese immigration during the era 1882 1943, angel island, immigrate gateway to america and the making of asian america, history. At the Immigration History Research Center she has helped emerge immigration history with the digital humanities. She launched and oversees the National Endowment for the humanity immigration story project which works with recent immigrants and refugees to. Text, preserve and share the expenses. Her book, america for americans history of xena phobia in the United States is the subject of tonights talk. Please welcome erika lee. [applause] hi seattle, him so glad to be here. Im so glad to be back here at townhall, i was last here in 2010 before it was renovated. Am really happy to be back at a very glad that we begin this evening with the land acknowledgment i would like to repeat that land acknowledgment as i will discuss later xenophobia in xena global wheels and is tightly connected, native americans along with africanamericans were made into this c
By emma lazarus that says give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free as the embodiment of the way we think about this country and immigration. As you look across the history of this nation, does it track with the reality of how we have treated immigrants . Dr. Kraut the history of immigration in the u. S. Doesnt track at all with emma lazaruss wonderful quotation. It has been a lovehate relationship. In the 19th century, there was a popular immigrant saying, america beckons but americans repel. In many ways that much more how ourly embodies relationship with immigration has been in the United States. One of the great ironies is that emma lazarus wrote the poem in 1883, and one year before, in 1882, the u. S. Passed the chinese exclusion law, excluding chinese laborers from coming to the United States. We would pass in the years after that increasingly restrictive legislation. So we want immigrants to come. We beckon them with opportunity. We beckon them